The purchase of Amena may prove to be a crucial step in the consolidation of European telecoms.
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Strategic corporate buyers are also returning to the takeover market France Telecom outbid private-equity bidders for Spain's Amena mobile operator last year, for example.
ECONOMIST: Private equity and technology
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In the past year, for example, Pernod Ricard struck a big deal to buy Britain's Allied Domecq, and France Telecom bought Spain's Amena.